by Ivory Web | Oct 8, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
The Penis ThinksIt is a mistaketo thinkthe penis has no muscleor a brain it wasn’t working outyou stopped loving meand my penis knew before I did.* Alex Keegan says “I'm a full-time writer. This poem 'appeared' between two shortstories. For...
by Ivory Web | Oct 7, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Shit Happens Pervading the airIn class todayFingers pointing every way The chief suspectProtesting his innocenceWas led away But still the same smellEven worse,Who could it be? Another search –In the middle somewhere…Sniffing the...
by Ivory Web | Oct 6, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Grandfather Plays Polo In his greasy jodhpurs with the batwing thighsGrandpa dreams of horses – we hear him snort and twitch.His deck-chair’s tattered canvas cups his awkward frame.All round the garden’s dreaming into June,a first red rose leans down, white...
by Ivory Web | Oct 5, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
WorkshopNothing is in its proper place. That is, we have to ask: Where are the proper places for all the tools at our disposal? Signs, labels are taped on drawers and cupboards. Still we walk back and forth, back and forth, asking the air, Where is the garlic press,...
by Ivory Web | Oct 4, 2008 | Word & Image
* Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author, but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. Books of haiku available from www.leatherdyke.co.uk
